Jeremy Hunt thought it was the NHS, Mel C thought it was insulin. Jim
Al-Khalili concurred not just with two Nobel prizewinners, but with the
Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, the chief executive of the Medical
Research Council — and Stephen Fry: for them the greatest medical
advance of the past century was antibiotics.

Nick Clegg chose a lonelier path: uniquely among respondents to the MRC
poll, he was simply grateful for the end of body snatching.

To celebrate the centenary of the MRC, the agency responsible for public
funding of medical research in Britain, a survey has been commissioned of
scientists,